LIBR 246-13 Building the Social Library Online

Flickr can be a great tool for libraries if you used right. The NC State Library and the Palos Verdes library really use it well. When a library has such a great collection of archive photographs, it only makes sense to put them on the web and allow anyone to see them. It's so much better to have them out in the world, searchable and taggable, and not just locked up in a vertical file in a forgotten corner of the stacks.

This week's assignment was pretty cool except for the blip tv not accepting flash part.  I initially set my preferences to web so that producing anything but flash or quicktime produced a horrible video.  My quicktime movie was optimized for an ipod so the image is kinda lame too.